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March 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Shirts are getting too big here.
I feel like I'm wearing a gummy sack.
Greetings, my good friends.
Rich Republicans, right-minded conservatives, those who aspire to both.
And a special heartfelt welcome to all of you.
Liberals, leftists out there.
Tuning in for your daily dose of hatred and rage.
Happy to help provide it for you.
Rush Linbaugh, the EIB network, telephone number 800-282-2882.
Email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Washington Post with a warning today in an editorial to the uh well, both the White House and the Democrats.
But I mean this is this is a warning.
It goes primarily to the uh to the to the to the Congress.
Uh political spectacle, a spectacle is the title here.
And let me just sum up their editorial.
There's no evidence that any firing of these eight U.S. attorneys obstructed a corruption investigation.
There is no evidence.
There was no crime in firing these people.
And even the Washington Post now says that there's no evidence that any of these firings obstructed a corruption investigation.
They also say in the Washington Post editorial that the Bush administration executive privilege concerns are legitimate.
The solution proposed by the Washington Post is to have Attorney General Gonzalez head up there and testify and have Rove gift a briefing.
Lawmakers would do well to demonstrate more understanding of the legitimate institutional concerns at stake here.
Is the president not entitled to confidence and confidential advice on personnel matters?
And to remember the tables could easily be turned as they were not so many years ago with a Republican Congress eager to rifle through the files of a Democrat administration.
So the uh the thing the Post, I'm sure they know it, they just don't reference it here is uh Democrats understand the legitimate institutional concerns at stake here.
They couldn't care less about they want Carl Rove.
And they want subpoenas primarily, not because they know there's been a crime, they want subpoenas so that they can set a perjury trap for both Harriet Myers and Carl Rove, a la Patrick Fitzgerald in the Libby case, or the Plame Leak case, or what have you.
I mean, the way to look at this is what if Bush sent requests to Patrick Leahy.
I want your staff come up here.
I want to talk to your number one legislative aid on the Judiciary Committee.
I want to find out just who you've been coordinating with to destroy the lives and careers of my judicial nominees.
Can you imagine the hubbub?
Can you imagine the anger that little Senator Depends would erupt with?
That's the equivalent of what's happening here, because there has been no crime.
And as the Washington Post points out, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh no evidence that any of the firings obstructed a corruption investigation, particularly corruption investigations of Republicans.
And the best evidence of that's look at Randy Duke Cunningham.
That uh U.S. attorney was uh, you know, under the gun.
Where's Cunningham?
Convicted and in jail.
The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary uh Mrs. Bill Clinton is a Democrat operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to Senator Barack Obama.
Philip DeVellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, acknowledged in an interview with the AP that he was the creator of the video, which portrayed uh Mrs. Bill Clinton as a big brother figure and urged support for Obama's presidential campaign.
DeVellis is 33 said he resigned from Blue State Digital on Wednesday after he learned that he was about to be unmasked by the Huffington Post.com, a liberal news and opinion internet site.
Blue State Digital designed Obama's website, and one of the firm's founding members, Joe Rospars, took a leave from the company to work as Obama's director of new media, the connection to the campaign likely to be a setback for Obama.
Why?
Why in the world would this be a setback?
It was a good ad.
What in the world's a setback about this?
I don't I don't I don't get the uh the conventional wisdom on this.
Likely to be a setback For Obama, who has cultivated an image as politician who wants to rise above bare knuckle politics.
It's true, yeah, it's me, DeVellas said Wednesday evening.
Uh I don't uh great ad.
You know, these people are gonna have to get real.
Here's the bottom line is, though, you mess with Mrs. Bill Clinton, and you watch out.
This cost this guy his job.
And if you read to the end of the story, remember the conclusion if you've read Orwell's 1984.
The conclusion is this it's not enough to obey Big Brother.
You must love Big Brother.
And the main character, after being tortured into turning on his true love, sat in the shop confessing his love for Big Brother.
Let's go to the end of the story here from A.P. This is this is where DeVellos Philip DeVellas is speaking.
This blew up much much more than I ever thought it would.
I want to make it clear, I don't think Mrs. Bill Clinton is big brother or a bad person or anything.
You gotta love big brother.
You just can't obey.
You have to love Big Brother, and you have to witness to this.
And you have to so Philip DeVellas is now closed the loop and finished the circle here on his own ad.
Because you mess with Mill is Mrs. Bill Clinton.
Uh watch out.
All right, now to the audio soundbite.
CNN couldn't let go yesterday of the Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Uh uh what were we called?
It's not a feud.
Uh uh Schwarzenegger calling me irrelevant.
And then hearing the way the media was treating it, uh, called me uh yesterday after yet uh this is a Tuesday afternoon.
He has to be on the program yesterday.
Call it a misunderstanding.
He has no fight.
The have no fight, he tells everybody in California.
I understood what he said in the front.
I there was no fight with me.
There were there were clean in fact the first words out of his mouth were thanks for getting me off the hook.
Now, a lot of people have said, by the way, Rush, you you, you let him off the hook.
He didn't apologize.
I didn't expect him to.
People like this don't apologize.
The worst thing you don't you don't do that.
Folk, you gotta understand this is the big leagues.
He called here and said, Thanks for getting me off the hook, meaning thanks for putting what I said in perspective, because you understood what I meant.
I wasn't calling you irrelevant in terms of being a powerful American media figure or anything like that.
Just what anybody thinks of what I'm doing in California is irrelevant to me.
I listened to myself.
That's all he was saying.
It was everybody else that uh regarded it as something personal.
Well, I didn't expect him to apologize, and that's not what he said he was going to do.
At uh at any rate, CNN uh and Carol Costello, uh renowned because of us, uh Info Baven reporter, just couldn't let go of this.
Uh Wolf Blitzer, who we like uh here at the EIB network.
This is again, we've got one minute and seventeen seconds.
This is like we did uh yesterday.
They promoed uh this this this the feud, whatever they were calling it, all afternoon on Tuesday, leading up to Carol Costello's report.
They did it again yesterday.
We've got here a little little montage of every promo that Wolf Blitzer uh aired on CNN yesterday afternoon.
It's round two for Republican icons.
As Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh take their war of words to the airwaves.
There are new developments unfolding in that very public war of words between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh.
Did they call a truce?
Up ahead, a possible truce uh and their very public feud.
Arnold Schwarzenegger going on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
Round two between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh.
Are they calling a ceasefire in their war of words?
Rush hosted Arnold Schwarzenegger today on his radio show.
We're gonna update you on what a merch.
Our Rush Limbaugh and Arnold Schwarzenegger ready to bury the hatchet.
We're gonna show you what happened today.
New developments, by the way, in that very public war of words between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh, the California governor was a guest today on the program.
Did they call a truce?
That very public war of words between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh continues.
Did they call a truce?
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Are they calling a ceasefire in their war of words?
And still ahead tonight, Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
New developments tonight in that very public war of words between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rush Limbaugh.
A day after the uh Terminator calls Rush Limbaugh irrelevant.
Now Rush tells Arnold he's selling out.
A minute and seventeen seconds of this.
Uh we didn't repeat one thing there.
That that's how they promoted it yesterday afternoon, leading up to this report from uh Info Babe and reporter at Extraordinaire Carol Costello, and you'll hear an expert in this report, the University of Virginia's political science uh uh uh expert, Larry Sabateau.
It's a beautiful thing, Republican reaching out to conservative talk show guy, but instead of showing the love, the two showed the split in the Republican Party.
Call it round two in the battle between Arnold and Rush.
This time gentle jabs were thrown on Limbaugh's radio show.
You probably get a little flustered every time you go on these shows, they throw my name up at you.
Was Hollywood movie star, governor Arnold Schwarzenegger flustered?
Roch Limbo is irrelevant.
It was a shot aimed at Limbaugh's loaded term for Schwarzenegger, a closet liberal.
But if Schwarzenegger was flustered that first time, he isn't now.
Some political observers say the conversation between these two very different Republicans is a beautiful metaphor for the state of the party.
The Republicans are divided.
They're polarized into two factions that can't agree even on the basics, and it's going to mean that it's much more difficult for Republicans to get elected to the presidency in 2008.
By the time the conversation ended, both had promised to smoke a stogie together.
But Limbaugh couldn't resist one last jab aimed at Schwarzenegger's famously Democratic wife.
I also want to apologize to uh Governor Schwarzenegger.
After this interview, I'm not sure Maria gets a word in edgewise in their house.
And that is how the battle ends for now.
It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?
You could look at it like this.
This is the year of the pragmatic conservative.
You want to win or do you want to be right?
We invited Rush Limbaugh to join us.
That would be excellent.
I had so many invitations I couldn't accept one without angering a bunch of others, so I took the usual route and politely declined them all.
So you see how this is now being played in the drive-by as Arnold is the new pragmatic Republican showing how to win.
I show my people how to lose.
Yet they still want the irrelevant Rush Limbaugh on CNN.
That would be excellent, said the infobabe and anchorette.
Well, she also does some anchoring, Carol Costello.
Just for those of you, by the way, just joining us and watching on the uh on the Ditto Cam at Rush Limbaugh.com.
I am holding here.
Brian, run grab the humidor real quick.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a cigar sent to me by Governor Schwarzenegger.
It arrived via overnight courier today.
Uh, and it is one of his own personal cigars, complete with his own band is put it right there, Brian.
Thanks a whole bunch.
Appreciate that.
A humador in which this cigar came.
I'm now holding up also in my hands, which contain my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, and the top of the humidor has the seal of the governor of the state of California.
And uh this is it uh right here.
Uh I have to have both hands on this, so I can't zoom in for you people.
Let me open it up, and you will see that Governor Schwarzenegger has autographed it inside on the uh upper left-hand corner of the inside of this very, very nice humidor.
Uh and to read the inscription to you, says to Rush best wishes, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
So, truce, whatever you want to call it, there was there was never a contra attempts.
Meantime, a brief timeout will be back.
We will continue right after this.
We will uh get to your phone calls here in a jiffy, uh, folks.
But first uh three sound bites here, two from John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards, and then one from Howard Feynman.
I made mention mere moments ago that the new website Politico has uh broken two scoops this week, both proving to be untrue.
The first was that Altno Alberto Gonzalez is gonna quit, and that the White House had asked Republicans out there to find potential replacements.
The second one was just uh this morning that Edwards was going to suspend the campaign.
And uh just the opposite happened.
Now, I'm gonna play these two bites, Edwards and uh John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards to set up Howard Feynman who commented on this later because it provides perhaps a little insight into what happened.
Ben Smith is the blogger at the Politico who broke the story this morning and Edwards is going to suspend a campaign.
He's got egg all over his face, and he's just put a post on his blog.
Hey, look, I uh I talked to a source really close to him, and the and the source said that they're gonna suspend a campaign, and you know we were astounded, we were shocked by this.
We apologize for this, but I I trust this source, so I'm not gonna reveal the source's uh identity, but uh this source has never got anything like this wrong.
So uh you'll you'll hear Howard Feynman's bite, and it might give you some insight here into what went on.
Here first is uh is Senator Edwards himself responding to a question what does this mean for your campaign?
Are you going to suspend any activities, fundraising, travel?
No.
The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly.
Uh Elizabeth and I have talked at length about this already, talked with our children about it.
Basically, as I mentioned earlier, we've been confronted with with these kind of traumas and struggles already in our life.
And we know from our previous experience that when this happens, you have a choice.
You can go cower in the corner uh and hide, or you can be tough and go out there and stand up for what you believe in.
And uh both of us are committed to the cause, we're committed to changing this country that we love so much, and we have no intention of cowering in the corner.
Now, this line that he uttered both of us are committed to the cause, we're committed to changing this country that we love so much.
I mentioned this earlier.
I'll repeat it again for those of you that just joined us last night when this news broke that this press conference going to happen today, but nobody knew details of just speculating.
I sent instant messages to three different people and told Snerdley this morning an hour and a half before the program that he's not going to suspend a campaign.
He's gonna say that he and his wife uh this campaign is going to go on uh for the country that uh we both love.
And it's that exactly what he said.
I so I was not surprised.
Well, I'll there was a little part of me that was.
Here now is Mrs. Edwards uh and her announcement.
One of the reasons to do a press conference as opposed to a press release is that you can see.
I mean, I don't look sickly, I don't feel sickly.
Um, and uh, you know, I'm as ready as any any person uh can be for for that.
I mean, you know how grueling it is in general.
I there is a likelihood that some of the medications that that I will be taking will at sometimes make me tired.
I have, as you all well know, and a lot of you know actually know that my children, my younger children, six and eight-year-old, if I get tired, I actually expect they're gonna be the reason, as opposed to the medications that Dr. Carey is going to be giving me.
But there's a chance that both of them will make me tired sometimes, and so sometimes I'll step back to sort of regain my uh my energy.
Now, Howard Feyn played those two bites to set this up.
This is Howard Feynman on PMSNBC after the announcement that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has returned, but that Senator Edwards will continue his presidential campaign.
This is Howard Feynman to Chris Matthews.
I think this is somewhat of a surprise.
I think there were some websites here in Washington that were predicting that he would suspend or even drop out.
That turned out not to be the case.
This is an ongoing story, and this is a metaphor for how they want to fight for the country.
They're willing to take the public relations risk of analogizing their own family situation and the bravery that they've shown and the guts that they've shown to the kind of leadership that they want to offer the country.
That's pretty bold, but that's the world that we live in now, Chris, where people's personal lives uh are analogized to their political beings.
And that's what we're seeing with the Edwards's.
I thought that was po looked at politically, diagnosed, if you will, politically.
That was a 10 strike of a press conference.
They showed guts that was nothing short of remarkable and somewhat unexpected, and it's always great when uh something unexpected happens around here.
Yes, it is great when something unexpected.
It's fabulous when there's a surprise.
Isn't it sort of boring when we find what, Mr. Snerdlin?
Of course I know how that sounds.
Of course I know it sounds slavish.
It sounds absolutely slavish, but look at he's right.
There's been a mix the the people are sh are sharing.
In the old days, uh, this this announcement would not have been made public, and it certainly would have been tied to a campaign.
It's a different era now.
This is, I'm telling you, this is to jumpstart the campaign.
This is to see if it'll jumpstart the campaign.
And we'll find out the next three or four days or whatever, week if that happens.
But this boat, this business about this being a surprise, makes me think that the leak that was planted today was purposely wrong to create surprise, to make sure everybody thought, oh, we know what's coming, and then have it blown away.
The campaign's gonna oh, the campaign's gonna go, oh, well, we thought it was gonna be suspended.
You know, we all get all these press releases in advance of the State of Union address.
We all know what's going to be said before it airs.
There's no surprise that this was surprise.
May have been done on purpose.
Gladly.
Thanks for the chance to break it down for you, brother.
Rush Linball making the complex understandable here on the EIV network.
You people watching on a ditto cam may have uh noticed that I have been wildly gesticulating through most of this program, but particularly the last five or six minutes during this break.
Uh the the whole crew on the other side of the glass, apoplectic at a comment I just made before the break.
And the comment about which they are apt to apoplectic is when I responded to Howard Feynman.
Howard Feynman talking about how everybody was expecting Edwards to announce his campaign is going to be suspended because of a report on the political website this morning, if that was the case.
And he went on to say this was a total surprise.
It was a hundred percent total surprise.
And I reacting to that said, yeah, it was a total surprise.
Uh, and I wouldn't be surprised if whoever the source is purposely leaked something uh uh not true to the politico in order to set up the surprise.
Because Feynman's right.
What good's watching a press conference when you know what's going to happen?
Every time there's a press conference or something, be it a presidential press conference, State of the Union address, there's always the text of the speech or whatever before it goes out, other than a you know, a news conference, which is ad-lib, you don't know what the questions are gonna be, but you know, we all know what's gonna happen before it happens.
It's the way public relations works.
Then all of a sudden they set this up.
This is a giant surprise, and everybody in Washington, Feynman was talking about everybody, CBS, CBS broke into programming at 11 o'clock when the political thing hit to announce that the Edwards campaign was going to be suspended.
Now, everybody in Washington in the drive-by media circles is wondering how the hell this happened.
Because it's so unusual when something leaks from a source close to the campaign about what's going to be in a press conference.
That's generally what happens.
Now I have here the latest blog from Ben Smith at the Politico.
I'm gonna read it to you.
It's called Getting It Wrong.
A single confident source close to John Edwards told me this morning that Edwards was suspending his campaign, and I posted it to the blog at 1106.
My source and I were wrong.
The source whose anonymity I agree to respect spoke of the kind of grim prognosis Elizabeth Edwards herself just described, hearing before a second round of tests came back.
I trusted the source, somebody I've known for several years, and who's always been reliable.
And with less than an hour before Edwards was to announce, I unwisely wrote the item without getting a second source.
When the campaign pushed back harder than I'd expected, I added that information to the original item, but didn't undo the damage.
My apologies to our readers for passing on bad information.
Is it not reasonable to think that perhaps the source purposely passed on something just to set up the surprise that Howard Feynman, drive by media extraordinaire, thinks is just jolly.
Think this is great that something that we love surprises in these things.
This is not a criticism.
Look at this is PR.
This is how you play the media.
And people on the other side of the glass think, oh my God.
The left-wing blogs are gonna be all over this.
Limbaugh said that the Edwards campaign lied to the political.
I didn't.
You know, in public relations and politics, just what is a lie and what isn't.
It's all a game.
And I don't want to go back and I want you to listen to this Howard Feynman bit.
One more time.
And I want to axe you as you listen to this, if there's something about it, and I re I referred to it as slavish.
But is there something else about this that strikes you?
put this under in context.
This is Howard Feynman reacting to the news he's just learned in a press conference with John and Elizabeth Edwards that she has incurable cancer.
He has spread to the bones.
It is stage four.
Life expectancy here, a survival rate of uh five years, 20% is survivable rate of five years.
She's got cancer is treatable, but we've all just heard this press conference.
Essentially saying that she's dying.
And Edward's going to keep the campaign going.
She's going to be part of it.
Uh see if there's anything it jumps out about.
Not that there's not a secret sentence here that will give it away.
There's not a single, I'm not asking you to listen for something specific.
Just the the whole bite uh and the concept and a tone of it is there's something here that sort of makes you curious, raises red flags or whatever.
Here it is.
I think this is somewhat of a surprise.
I think there were some websites here in Washington that were predicting that he would suspend or even drop out.
That turned out not to be the case.
This is an ongoing story, and this is a metaphor for how they want to fight for the country.
They're willing to take the public relations risk of analogizing their own family situation and the bravery that they've shown and the guts that they've shown to the kind of leadership that they want to offer the country.
That's pretty bold, but that's the world that we live in now, Chris, where people's personal lives uh are analogized to their political beings.
And that's what we're seeing with the Edwards's.
I thought that was looked at politically, diagnosed, if you will, politically.
That was a tenth strike of a press conference.
They showed guts that was nothing short of remarkable and somewhat unexpected, and it's always great when uh something unexpected happens around here.
See, he is thrilled to thrill thrilled to beans, folks, that there was a surprise in a press conference.
He's not upset the political got it wrong.
He's kind of gonna kind of get glad because it's a surprise, but that's not point.
He makes the comment here that that's just the way it is, Chris in politics today.
You know, um people's personal lives um diagnosed politically, and um they're analogized politically.
Howard, who's do who does that?
Who analogizes personal lives politically?
Who who is it that takes virtually every news story and tries to turn it into a political event and analyze it politically in terms of somebody's fortunes?
And the answer to the question, of course, is none other than the drive-by media.
So, how many of you would agree with me, and it would be wise if you were to do so, when I say that we've just heard, we've just we've just heard John and Elizabeth Edwards announce that his campaign's continuing despite his wife's recurring cancer,
incurable cancer, and that entire bite is an analysis of the political aptitude, strength, and brilliance of the press conference.
That bite, Howard Feynman analyzed it totally politically.
It's a 10-strike.
Now, what if I were to do that?
Let's take a hypothetical, hypothetical.
Let's pretend that I were to, after hearing the press conference, come on with some comment about, you know what, folks, this is purely political.
This is just being done to set up this camp.
This is just trying to, they're just all they're trying to do, if I were to say this, they're just trying to jump start a sagging campaign.
They're hoping to evoke a bunch of sympathy.
Do you know what hell would fly over this government?
Nothing compared to the feud between me and the governor.
But that's what Feynman just did, except he has a different political take than the hypothetical political take I just suggested.
His political take, whoa, what a brilliant political move here.
Now, frankly, I can't relate to this.
Uh if I were married, uh if I if I were married and in a similar circumstance here as the Edwards, And my wife was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
And I called a press conference.
You know what?
I've learned over the course of my life that life has a purpose.
And my wife and I have decided I'm going to proceed with broadcast excellence.
Do you think I would be praised for making a brilliant political or business decision?
Of course not.
Of course not.
But here our buddy Howard Feynman has just rated the press conference on a political scale.
That's that's something that that struck me about this.
And I just wanted to make that observation.
Now to the phones because people have been patiently waiting.
We'll go to Riverside, California.
And uh Jim, your first today was well is this the first call that we know it's the second call.
It's the first call.
First call we well, we're breaking news out there.
We have to deal with it.
Jim, thanks for waiting.
Hi.
You were supposed to hardball Arnold.
Yes, California skyrocketing downward to illegal alien hell.
And you two end up being stoggy smoking bugs.
All this after Mr. Schreiber turns Cali into Northern Mexico.
And then you said he didn't let you get a word angelized.
I've heard you talk to uh liberals, and you uh always managed to get a word in answer wise.
Why not with Arnold?
Well, I actually did.
He he was he was on a jihad, I mean there's no question he was in a uh jihad filibuster, and that's because he he did he he wanted to try to control the subject matter in the context of the interview.
But I don't think you must have listened to the whole thing because he didn't get out of here scot-free.
And I challenged him on uh on a couple of things.
But there will be other instances.
There was a note included with the humador, by the way, Jim.
He uh he wants to be on the show often, he said.
Okay.
But I'm sorry I let you down.
You know, I I I'm sorry I let you down.
I I uh I I was you know, I uh I'm not a rude individual, I'm a gentleman.
And I understood right off the bat that uh well, very soon after the interview started that that this was uh you know he was going to try to filibuster his way through this, just beat the clock, uh uh, so to speak.
What you don't know is that uh uh his office has said, look, five, seven minutes is all we got because we got to go meet the police chief in Fresno.
And we got I uh didn't and and uh he was here for fifteen.
Now, if I if I if I had if he had gone out of here in five to seven minutes, which is you know, I would have basically had a chance to say hi thanks.
Uh you would have then had an excuse, uh legitimate reason to be mad at me.
Okay, well, uh thank you for your apology.
And uh I'd appreciate it of a snurdly who'd quit this and me when I call.
And have a good day.
How does he diss you when you call?
I don't I have this is the first I've heard of this.
Well, he always uh I mean you're here on the air.
You made it on the air and you ripped me to shreds, and you gotta feel better about that.
What did you think?
Uh he must he said he was gonna pass a lot of things on to you because he didn't think they were worthwhile getting to you.
So uh I've called, I've talked to Snerdley fifty times in the past few months, and uh not once did he think anything I had to say was worthwhile.
Hearing this, I I think Snerdley deserves a raise, uh, frankly, but I'll f I'll I'll I'll talk to him about this, Jim, and I'll find out what he told him that he uh he didn't pass on because that clearly is uh not nice, and it's mean, and plus it's misleading to you when he says he's gonna tell me things that he doesn't, and that's just unacceptable here at the excellence in broadcasting network.
Well, uh you're a very kind man.
I I appreciate that.
Uh you're in Riverside, uh, and you know you're in that means you're in Southern California, which is you know I'm in illegal alien.
Well, I know.
You're you're you're more you're more northern Mexico now than they are up in San Francisco and Sacramento, so we got more gunshots out here at night time than in Iraq does.
Well, so does Philadelphia uh and uh some other cities.
Uh we've Yeah, but I feel for you.
I I uh I didn't know that uh calling this program was such an arduous thing for you, having to go through the uh whatever snerdle's putting it through, but I promise you I am going to get to the bottom of it.
Well, thank you very much, Rush.
You are a gentleman.
Thank you.
Have a great day out there, Jim, and we'll we'll we'll talk to you next week.
Uh back after this, stay with us.
Welcome back.
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Back to California.
This is Jeff.
Uh you're up, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush Megadiddos from Bakersfield.
You are a hero so to so many of us, and uh, you are my definition of the word patriot.
Thank you, sir.
Very I appreciate your saying that.
Um just something John Edwards said really uh struck me the wrong way.
And while I have extreme compassion for uh for his wife going through cancer, uh my family went through cancer with a three-year-old kid, and it's everybody fights it their own way.
However, to declare that you're just gonna do what you want to do, and perhaps suggesting people that don't do that are running and cowering in a corner, I think is um that just really struck me the wrong way.
Is that how you interpreted it that he was assailing others who don't continue on with their lives as cowering in the corner?
Well, boy, it is that one just like I said, having been through it and and lived at a hospital for six months and seeing families battling it, and see seeing how it brings families together, and everybody deals with it in their own way.
But one thing you don't do is is is tell other people going through it, oh you're doing it wrong, and if you do that, you're just going and cowering and being scared.
I didn't think he was doing that.
I think they was they were describing themselves.
Uh, we're not gonna cower in a co we're we're not we're not gonna run from this.
We're not gonna we're not gonna I don't I didn't get the impression he was commenting on the way any other family deals with this.
Perhaps not, but still, and I'm not a uh uh at all a politically correct person, but it's just um that one just struck me the wrong way, and that that was my comment, but uh and also you were so right on on the global warming hypocrisy.
Keep it up, Rush.
We love it.
Well, we gotta the global warming stack global warming stack, it it just I I'm convinced it's making love to itself because it just keeps growing.
There is more and more stuff that is accumulating in the global warming stack each day.
Um it's getting to the point we could do a whole show on it, and of course that would be overkill.
But I appreciate that.
Richard, in uh in Raleigh, North Carolina, one and a half minutes.
Can you do it?
Sure, I can do it.
Um this um this whole um Senate approved um uh uh subpoenas here, it's it's um it just smelled to me of uh this whole scooter libby fiasco all over again.
You you stole my thumb here.
You mentioned it the last hour.
But um the first time I heard about this, it just I said I'll just you know it's it's it's they're gonna it's gonna get to a point where it's not gonna be about what they're acute what they're saying anymore, and it's just gonna be about the process now, and about somebody didn't recollect something correctly.
And this this has happened.
I mean, there's there's nothing unique about what's happening here.
There's always been these constitutional battles between Senate and the White House, Congress and the White House.
They're all vying for power, and they've all there have been presidents that have been despised and hated.
And there have been uh, you know, Senate committees that have tried to subpoena uh witnesses, documents from the executive branch and so forth.
None of this is new.
The details here are what's important.
Uh the details are there's no crime here.
There's there's there there's there's no reason for subpoenas, and there's no there's no reason for testimony.
No crime.
There was no prosecutor fired in order to uh curtail a a corruption prosecution.
Uh this is if if any it's just harassment.
And this the this harassment happens a lot.
Uh and it's like I said, and you agree with it, it's a perjury trap.
They'd love to get Rolfe and Harriet Myers up there under oath and try to keep them up there for days and get them telling lies.
But that's why when you have these fights, it's it's the administration, they've drawn a line in the sand and they've got a hold of it now.
Because they're starting to get support on this.
They've got a hold of the fight now.
If they if if if they cave to this, then they're they're gonna damage it themselves.
And the whole concept of executive privilege as well.
Back in a sec.
All right, gotta go take a break.
Get away from all these people thinking I'm in trouble again.
I'm not in trouble, and even if I am, I'm not in trouble for anything legitimate, and I can defend it, I can take the heat.
What the hell?
You people out there need to relax.
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